PHIL 2020 Chapter : Plato
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Can virtue be taught: acquired by words- instruction. (logos) Or, is it the result of practice: acquired by action- habit. (ergon) Or, is it a gift/natural possession: innate. He has heard this before, so he assumes it"s what is right: shape is that which always follows color, shape is the limit of color. Something we"ve heard from priests and priestesses: myth about recollection. Souls are immortal and therefore know everything, yet they hold this knowledge and it is relearned in a new body: meno wants a demonstration that this is a case, so. Socrates teaches a slave boy math. (the boy doesn"t have any prior teachings of math): socrates draws a square in the sand, socrates says i"m going to give you a side(part) of this square. Then socrates says how about we double the square, now we have 4 foot sides. What would the area here be? the boy says it gives us the 8 foot square.
